Anna Paulina Luna has become one of Capitol Hill's most aggressive practitioners of attention politics, thriving on a curated cocktail of public confrontations and MAGA-friendly internet rabbit holes.
At 37, the congresswoman has built a devoted online following and made herself a rising figure in Republican grassroots politics.
However, her approach has also irritated many of her colleagues, including Republicans who privately describe her as impulsive, media-obsessed and willing to outrun the facts to dominate the screen.
Luna's small group of allies on the Hill are fiercely loyal and range from conservatives to centrists, saying that she offers support even when it is politically inconvenient and arguing that she has been successful at drawing attention to issues she and the American public care about.
Her status as a disrupter within her party partly dates back to last year when she pushed for the House to allow proxy voting for new parents in Congress, drawing staunch conservative backlash and prompting her decision to leave the House Freedom Caucus.
